Shoe-heel-burnishing wheel.



C. J. J. STRAESSLE.

SHOE HEEL BURNISHING WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11,1913.

Patented Dec. 8, 1914.

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C. J. J. STRAESSLE.

SHOE HEEL BURNISHING WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 11.1913.

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CHARLES JACOB JOSEF STRAESSLE, OF LYNhT, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Application led September 11, 1913. p Serial No. 789,231.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES JACOB Josnr S'rnanssnn, a citizen of Switzerland, and a resident oi' Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Shoe Heel Burnishing IVheel, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

he invention relates to a novel burnishing wheel especially adapted to the burnishing of shoe heels, and it is a design of the invention to provide a burnisher in which an annnlar burnishing means on the exterior of thewheel .is adapted` to yield and to automatically conform to the curvature of the heel at the point of contact.

In carrying out the invention use is made of individual rings to constitute the burnishing means, and spring elements at the inner periphery of the rings, and yieldingly supporting the same, there being a clearance space at the inner periphery of the rings permitting the rings to yield individually and assume various degrees of eccentricity with respect to the axis of the wheel in conforming in profile at the point oi" contact with the heel, to the curvature of the latter.

The distinguishing features oit' my invention, and the important structural elements characterizing the practical embodiment which is illustrated as an example, will be more particularly explained in the specific description hereinafter to be given.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specication, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a longitudinal, sectional view of a burnisher embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a front view, with parts in section, on approximately the line 2-2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is a side elevation; Fig. 4C is a separate View of a portion of one of the bur nishing rings; and Figs. 5 and 6 are side elevations showing modifications of the peripheral grooves.

In constructing a burnisher in accordance with my invention, a hub 10 is provided, of any approved shape and dimensions, having suitable supports ll which may be in the form of separate forwardly extending arms on which are seated plate springs l2, these springs being secured by screws 13 or their equivalent. Around the hub a burnishing means is provided, which I form of indi- 'pecicaton of Letters atent.

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vidual rings ll, the springs being formed with lateral spring tongues 12a, to better permit the individual rings 14: to yield relatively to each other and assume various degrees of eccentricity with respect to the axis of the wheel. l

The outerL periphery of the wheel formed by the burnishing rings l-l, may initially have any suit-able degree of curvature, as illustrated in Fig. 1 vor'may be non-curving as in Fig. 3. Whatever the external form of the burnisher, the rings ll may yield radially inward to conform at the point of contact with the shoe heel A, to the curvature of the said heel. The rings in the illustrated example are held between an annular fiange l0a on the hub and a ring l'secured to the outer end of the spring supports ll, by a screw 1G or equivalent means.

The relative arrangement ofy the springs 12 and burnishing means 1l is such that the rings will be engaged by the springs and prevented from creeping. I have shown the rings ll (see Fig. 2) as formed with lugs lla projecting radially inward at the periphery of the rings, and disposed between opposite ends oit adjacent tongues l2a of the springs, so that in the turning of the wheel the springs will engage the lugs on the rings and turn the latter regardless of the direction in which the `wheel is turned.

In theform shown in Fig. 4l, the lugs 14h corresponding to the lugs 14a of Fig. 2, are produced by forming notches 14C in the inner periphery ofthe rings lll, while in Fig. 2, the lugs la project inward beyond the inner peripheral line of the ring.

The rings 14 at their outer periphery may be formed with grooves 14d, which may range parallel with the axis, as shown in full lines in Fig. 3, or these grooves may be cut diagonally, either right to left or left to right, as indicated at llle laf in Figsf and 6.

The hub 10 is formed with a suitable socket or bore 10b to receive the revolving The described constructionv affords a prac?I tical means for carrying my invention into eiect, and I would state in conclusion that I do not limit myself strictly to the mechanical details hereinafter illustrated, since n manifestly the same can be considerably varied without'departure from the spirit of the invention. y

Having thus described my invention, yI claim as new and'desire'to claim by Letters Patent:l

1. Aburnishing wheel having an annular peripheral burnisher, and spring means serings but unconnected therewith and spaced s apart about the axis of said wheel, each of said springs having lateral resilient tongues for supporting each ofy said rings, eachk of said rings having a lug extending inwardly from its inner lperiphery between a pair of lateral tongues of adjacent springs.

A burnishing wheel comprising a hub 30 having' arms approximately parallel with f the axis, plate springs secured to the arms and formed with lateral resilient tongues at the sides, and an annular burnisher formed of separate rings yieldinglyy sup-V ported on the tongues.

LA burnishingl wheelcomprising a hub havingl arms approximately parallel withv 'ln testimony whereof have signed my name to thisspecificationin the presence yof two subscribing witnesses. v

CHARLES JACOB JOSEF STRAESSLEV.

Vitnesses l EDWARD y FRANCIS HERLIKY, WALTER ANDERHUB.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 111C. 

